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This book provides an in-depth study of community and home eldercare in modern China, examining its integration with urban community governance. Community eldercare, established through public-private partnerships, reveals a hybrid economy where state control and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book is a guide for stakeholders in nurse migration at a time when the shortage of nurses is a global crisis and the underutilization of Internationally Educated Nurses (IEN) a major factor. Each chapter offers perspectives on the migration processes and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This Palgrave Pivot offers insight into the factors that influence, motivate and inform young men’s online experiences. In Australia and globally recent media and public discourse has expressed strong concerns about the gender-based harms arising from young...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book investigates the affective and aesthetic resonances between the works of Philip K. Dick, Thomas Pynchon, and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, offering a fresh perspective on the current fascination with conspiracy theories in the United States. By drawing...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book is the first to study the language and politics of identity of recent mainland Chinese migrants to Malaysia. Drawing on a variety of fieldwork data, the volume provides an accessible and succinct view of this ‘new’ transnational migrant community...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book analyzes social research and genres of comics from cross-cultural perspectives. It disentangles the impact of comics in understanding social, cultural and political issues and considers the challenges they may raise from an ethical point of view. In nine case...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book documents the purpose and history of the African Network for Evidence-to-Action in Disability (AfriNEAD) with the aim to showcase how to develop useful research with, for, and by persons with disabilities within the African context and beyond. Edited by one of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book analyses historic and contemporary border regime developments in East Africa, and draws a complex picture of borders control in Africa beyond stereotypical “Western” imaginations. Based on ethnographic research, it describes the everyday realities...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This proceedings book collects contributions from the Internet and Modern Society conference in 2024. The gathering addresses topical issues of digital geography and the geography of information society, providing a platform for discussion and collaboration between...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book focusses on how historical dynamics and specific actors have shaped the diverse outlook and everyday practice of welfare in and across Europe. Based on the concept that narratives about welfare in Europe are intricately interconnected with various practices of...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2025-09-26
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The rationale of this book is to provide carefully selected images from Google Earth, to discuss what they show, and to provide references to the heritage sites portrayed so that readers can go deeper if they wish. Taking examples from all over the world, this book aims...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This short book examines the dynamic and complex nature of free speech, with reference to criminal law. It explores its historical roots, its role as a cornerstone of democracy, and its contemporary challenges. Free speech is not merely a legal right but a social and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book explores how minoritized languages and identities are impacted by “deglobalization” - marked by increased state control, declining global market power, and growing repression of civil liberties. As nations tighten borders and prioritize unity, many...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This third edition of the highly successful handbook is presented for the first time in two volumes, covering the field of social psychology more comprehensively than earlier, including applying social psychology to different areas in sociology. It showcases the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book is an extensive guide that covers topics related to building sustainable and resilient urban environments. The book delves into crucial issues such as energy efficiency, air quality, climate change mitigation and adaptation, solid waste management,...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-26
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What is the significance of Barbie’s journey from toy aisles to screens? Barbie in the Media offers a groundbreaking exploration of Barbie as a transmedia phenomenon. In examining the brand’s multifaceted media presence, this volume’s chapters consider...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This Handbook is a first-of-its-kind, high-quality reference resource guiding readers through the burgeoning fields of queer and trans studies in religion, and pointing them toward the newest directions these fields are taking or should take. The chapters cover both...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This volume critically examines the intersection of settler colonialism and human-created disasters affecting many Indigenous and minority communities in Bangladesh. Through a rigorous exploration of both historical and contemporary contexts, it shows how colonial and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-26
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This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people. Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences answers this...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26
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The 21st century is witnessing an unprecedented convergence of transformative technologies that promise to reshape global energy systems, governance, and societal well-being. Among these, Public Interest Technology (PIT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Fusion Energy...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-26
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